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Why Mental Toughness you might be asking? Well, how capable are you at handling stress and pressure in your life right now?
Very few of the people I've worked with knew how to handle the pressure moments they faced before they were coached. They simply hoped that winging it would be enough to get them through the challenges they faced. The way I think of it is they were surviving their pressure and stress moments. This is how it was for me when I was competing as a professional golfer. I was surviving those perceived pressure moments, but I wasn't managing them very well. I didn't know how. |
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The One Common Denominator
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I realized very early on in my coaching career that the one common denominator without question that determines how high you can climb in your career is how effectively you handle the pressure moments you face.
So the core of my coaching skills focus evolved into coaching mental toughness skills because I found that my clients could perform closer to their capability level when they used the coping and management strategies I taught them. I've read many definitions of what mental toughness is in the research, and of all the definitions I've come across the following quote (below) attributed to psychologist Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk encapsulates what mental toughness ability is clearly and concisely in my experience. |
"Mental toughness is a personality trait which determines in large part, how people [you] respond to challenge, stress and pressure, irrespective of their [your] circumstances."
(Clough & Strycharczyk 2012)
(Clough & Strycharczyk 2012)
Stress & Pressure Are Different
So, you can see that how you respond to stress and pressure is important regardless of the conditions you find yourself in. Stress and pressure are not the same thing however, and it is a mistake to label stress as pressure to perform. Even though people use them interchangeably in sentences, they affect us differently. Let me explain.
A stress response describes your biological and psychological response to a perceived threat you feel you don't have the available resources to deal with.
A 'stressor' is the threat itself that causes you the stress. It can be worrying over a presentation, a test or exam, losing your job, or being promoted to a position beyond your current capability level, or simply failing to perform when expected. There are many examples of stressors.
If you perceive the demands you face to outweigh your current resources then this can be enough to trigger a negative stress response in your body.
A stress response describes your biological and psychological response to a perceived threat you feel you don't have the available resources to deal with.
A 'stressor' is the threat itself that causes you the stress. It can be worrying over a presentation, a test or exam, losing your job, or being promoted to a position beyond your current capability level, or simply failing to perform when expected. There are many examples of stressors.
If you perceive the demands you face to outweigh your current resources then this can be enough to trigger a negative stress response in your body.
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On the other hand the pressure to perform is different because it describes situations where something you are going to do (that is important to you) is reliant on you successfully performing it.
So, it is the ability to act confidently and competently when something's on the line. Rather than reacting to a stress inducing event, you are acting positively in the face of it. We see examples of people performing under pressure all the time-not only in sports, but in many other domains. For example it could be fireman entering a burning building to save a life, or maybe it's a musician performing in-front of a large crowd. |
The 4 C's Model of Mental Toughness
When you work with me in one of my Mental Toughness Mindset coaching programs we begin the coaching process with you completing the MTQ-PLUS mental toughness assessment which takes just 15 minutes to complete.
The MTQ-PLUS assessment is a 74 question psychometric assessment based on the 4 C's model of mental toughness developed by Professor Peter Clough of the University of Huddersfield in the U.K. and colleagues. Dr. Clough's model is considered to be one of the most widely used models for defining and measuring mental toughness, and his 4 C's model comprises four components of Commitment, Challenge, Confidence and Control.
The MTQ-PLUS assessment is a 74 question psychometric assessment based on the 4 C's model of mental toughness developed by Professor Peter Clough of the University of Huddersfield in the U.K. and colleagues. Dr. Clough's model is considered to be one of the most widely used models for defining and measuring mental toughness, and his 4 C's model comprises four components of Commitment, Challenge, Confidence and Control.
Once you complete the MTQ-PLUS assessment, you will receive a 17 page report from me based on the results of your assessment. I will then schedule a call with you to go through the findings and from there we will work together on the best process possible for creating lasting changes that lead you to your most important goals.
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